Since I'm moving, I had my delivery date for my westy changed to late July - should I call Best Buy and reschedule delivery to as soon as possible? If they discontinue this item I'm worried they will give all of them away and end up cancelling my order.

If you want it at the price you ordered, you best move fast and get them to fill the order ASAP, or you will be cancelled due to no stock.

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Originally Posted by ZippoMan

I'm restating from a previous post as I got no answer

Since I'm moving, I had my delivery date for my westy changed to late July - should I call Best Buy and reschedule delivery to as soon as possible? If they discontinue this item I'm worried they will give all of them away and end up cancelling my order.

This is my first HDTV purchase, and I wish there were more information available on the internet as far as calibration, ICC profile, etc.

Will anyone that have any REAL knowledge of this TV (either from experience or from work), please step forward?

If you feel that adamant about it, you should just collect the data and try to start one yourself

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Originally Posted by Peter740

I would just wait until westinghouse release's the firmware. They should fix the problem FREE. There product is defective and they will fix it.

They better damn well... Though.... who knows -_-........

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Originally Posted by Peter740

I have stated this fact a week ago but no one wanted to hear it. PeterS is so full of BS about how he wants to help people out here but instead he helps himself out. Charging people money for a service code. That is so low and grimey! I am glad you finally got exposed for the phoney that you are.

Indeed, that just shows how desperate we all are for answers. I say we all e-mail and bug Westinghouse to fix the damn TVs and get us the damn firmware upgrades. We need to make them aware we mean business or else they won't care.

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Originally Posted by nagyg

I sent an e-mail to Westinghouse for the Service Menu Access Code - no reply.

Sorry they are too busy counting the 5.4 billion they are getting from toshiba.

I have also not received the SM codes from Westinghouse. I'll be emailing them again in a few days.

FYI: I have fw 1.11, no banding issues and a beautiful picture. It could be better with access to the service menu, but I like it. Very few people with good opinions post, only negative. With the popularity of this unit the problems will seem to be much more extreme, so I caution anyone to look at the threads here with a grain of salt. Also, don't believe anything BB says, my local store can still order it and it shows as normal stock.

Heck, it even looks like it belongs where I mounted it to the wall. My girlfriend says so!

Scot Kight

"Don't touch that, this isn't your house and that isn't your tv!" she says.

"But look at it, the contrast is completely blown out, the color is all off and that tint. This will only take a sec..."

I have also not received the SM codes from Westinghouse. I'll be emailing them again in a few days.

FYI: I have fw 1.11, no banding issues and a beautiful picture. It could be better with access to the service menu, but I like it. Very few people with good opinions post, only negative. With the popularity of this unit the problems will seem to be much more extreme, so I caution anyone to look at the threads here with a grain of salt. Also, don't believe anything BB says, my local store can still order it and it shows as normal stock.

Heck, it even looks like it belongs where I mounted it to the wall. My girlfriend says so!

I agree with Scot--this LCD looks great out of the box. Mine is 1.16 -- no lockups or banding, no dead pixels -- I am hesitant to upgrade to 1.18 since it ain't broke.

Service menu would be nice to calibrate, though. Looks like a pretty harmless SM...not sure what the big deal is.

My new set is a 1.11 (11/29/2005), and it does not have the little Genesis logo in the System information display. Does anyone know what is up with that? I don't think my 1.16 had it either. Are there diferent VPs out there, or just not displaying? Should I try to return and get one with the Genesis? (ugh, I hope not, this new set seems to have a better PQ!)

I have firmware v. 1.10 on my 42W2 purchased in March and it does not display the Genesis logo either but I know it has the chip. Since the menu display is part of the firmware I just assume that the logo grapjic was not included in v1.10 and apparently v1.11 as well.

If I remember correctly I believe peters stated that the firmware update was done via a cable going to the vga port, possibly emulating a serial connection over the unused cables. Anyone want to splice some cables together to see if they can find the serial port?

Might show info on startup?

Scot

Scot Kight

"Don't touch that, this isn't your house and that isn't your tv!" she says.

"But look at it, the contrast is completely blown out, the color is all off and that tint. This will only take a sec..."

Has anyone calibrated there sets with AVIA or DVE? If so can you please type down your settings and Backlight? Thanks, just want to have some ideas where to start at.

I used BOTH.

As I sent out in an email to my friends, I watch the show SUNRISE EARTH, on Discovery HDTV and it seems that I'm looking out a window! I started with video settings posted by PeterS and tweaked from there. (gotta give credit where due!)

I regularly change the Backlight depending on the amount of light in the room from a setting of 20 when dark to a setting of 30 when daylight. My set is connected via an HD Time-Warner SA8300 cable box via the HDMI port. The DiscoveryHD channel is sent at 1080i.

I used a Samsung Upscaling DVD player set to output 1080i via DVI1 and a HDMI - DVI cable. Guess where I found the cable? You got it! It was from www.monoprice.com !

I will attempt to put together a serial cable over the weekend and see what I come up with. It looks like there are 3 unused pins on a standard vga cable (pins 4, 9, 11) and a number of gounds (pins 5-8,10). We also know that tivo implemented their serial using a 1/8 inch cable and 3 serial pins (pins 2,3,5) - (Transmit, Receive, and Ground). It seems as though some combination of these connections would be the logical way Westinghouse implemented serial - if what PeterS said is true - that the "dongle" will connect to the VGA port. I will post what I find - anyone else want to work through this with me?

Your westy 42" fits this model OK? It says only for 37 or lower and it only 1 stud to secure to.. But if it works what the hell.. In your guys opinion, which websites have the best deals for wall mounts?

I downloaded one of those 1080p WM videos from microsoft.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...tshowcase.aspx
I can't find the original thread so I will ask again in here. Can I just hook up my CPU to the westy via RGB and play the 1080p video through windows media player and be seeing a true 1080p feed on the Westy? I can't remember if the RGB is 1080p as well as HDMI and the DVI's.

If you want it at the price you ordered, you best move fast and get them to fill the order ASAP, or you will be cancelled due to no stock.

I changed my delivery date to this Friday (June 23rd). It worries me that Best Buy is no longer carrying this product.......does westinghouse already have a new line of LCDs in the works? Obviously they couldn't be replacing the 37" AND 42" with the 47".

svga port is definitely 1080p i was trying to play the sony.de wega demo on my junk 6200 geforce card and at 5fps it looks great lol need more powah @ 1920x1080@60hz.
(check out the demo its insane looking good)

svga port is definitely 1080p i was trying to play the sony.de wega demo on my junk 6200 geforce card and at 5fps it looks great lol need more powah @ 1920x1080@60hz.
(check out the demo its insane looking good)

Your westy 42" fits this model OK? It says only for 37 or lower and it only 1 stud to secure to.. But if it works what the hell.. In your guys opinion, which websites have the best deals for wall mounts?

I focused more on the weight specs and the Westy is much lighter than the 80 pounds max weight for the mount. The mount extends far enough to turn the Westy so it is at 90 degrees vs. the wall. I bought from Amazon...